Re: CardBus ADMTek woes - Portable

This is a discussion on Re: CardBus ADMTek woes - Portable ; wow very helpful post David, I'm having the same problem and I found
this to be very helpful. However what if I dont have the yenta socket
going? in my /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia i only have
PCMCIA=yes
PCIC=i82365
PCIC_OPTS=
CORE_OPTS=
CARDMGR_OPTS=
i ...

Re: CardBus ADMTek woes

wow very helpful post David, I'm having the same problem and I found
this to be very helpful. However what if I dont have the yenta socket
going? in my /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia i only have

PCMCIA=yes
PCIC=i82365
PCIC_OPTS=
CORE_OPTS=
CARDMGR_OPTS=

i guess this is probably because im using Redhat and that is their
default way of structuring the config.

but in any case i did everything else you said and I still get "No IRQ
known for interrupt pin A of device ." in dmesg, and everytime i
hotplug the card. somethings def. not right with this driver (im using
ADM's newest -104). any ideas?

hughjonesd@yahoo.co.uk (David) wrote in message news:...
> Success!
>
> Here's a short HOWTO to get an ADMTek wireless CardBus card working on
> a Toshiba Portege running SuSE 8.0. Should help with other
> distributions too, but some of the specific commands may vary.
>
> (1) Don't buy the TEW-221PC from Trendware! Their Linux support is
> non-existent.
>
> (2) make sure that your PCMCIA mode is set to "CardBus" in the BIOS.
> You can access the BIOS by holding down the Escape key while you
> reboot the computer.
>
> (3) Compile the drivers available from
> http://www.admtek.com.tw/index/index/download.htm
> (you want the "ADM8211 Linux Driver")
>
> Untar the tar file (tar -zxvf *filename*), then follow the
> instructions in the README file. You should end up with a file named
> "8211.o".
>
> (4) (From here on, you need to be root.) You need to make sure that
> the PCMCIA system knows what to do with your driver.
> Add these lines in /etc/pcmcia/config:
>
> # these lines tell your system how to load the 8211 module
> device "8211"
> class "network" module "8211"
>
> and later on:
> # these lines get the system to recognize your card
> card "ADMTek wireless CardBus Card"
> pci 0x1317, 0x8201
> bind "8211"
>
> Your pci number may vary. To find out what they are, insert the card
> and do "cardctl ident". You will see something like
>
> no product info available
> PCI id: 0x1317, 0x8201
>
> (5) copy the compiled driver, "8211.o" to "/lib/modules/[your kernel
> version/pcmcia". You probably want to do a "depmod" after this step.
>
> (6) make sure that you are using the kernel PCMCIA subsystem, with the
> "yenta_socket" driver. In /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia, make sure that you
> have the lines
> PCMCIA_SYSTEM="kernel"
> and
> PCMCIA_PCIC="yenta_socket"
>
> (7) restart your pcmcia so that these config changes get read:
> "/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart"
>
> (8) hotplug your card (unplug it and plug it back in). Now do a
> "lsmod". If one of the lines reads "8211", congratulations - your card
> is working. You will now need to configure it. You probably can't use
> YaST for this - instead, you will need to edit the
> /etc/sysconfig/network/ files by hand. Read "man ifup" to get you
> started.
>
> (9) If something goes wrong:
> - look at the syslog when you insert a card. Make sure that you are
> logging all messages, by editing /etc/syslog.conf to have a line
> saying
> *.* /var/log/allmessages
> or similar. Then run
> tail -f /var/log/allmessages
> and watch the output.
>
> - ask on this list
>
> - ask on the very helpful Toshiba Linux users mailing list
> (tlinux-users@linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp)
>
> Thanks to all those who helped.
>
> David

Re: CardBus ADMTek woes

zakat wrote:
> wow very helpful post David, I'm having the same problem and I found
> this to be very helpful. However what if I dont have the yenta socket
> going? in my /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia i only have
> PCMCIA=yes
> PCIC=i82365
> PCIC_OPTS=
> CORE_OPTS=
> CARDMGR_OPTS=
> i guess this is probably because im using Redhat and that is their
> default way of structuring the config.

Is this a very old Red Hat?

-- Dave

Re: CardBus ADMTek woes

dhinds@sonic.net wrote in message news:...
> zakat wrote:
> > wow very helpful post David, I'm having the same problem and I found
> > this to be very helpful. However what if I dont have the yenta socket
> > going? in my /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia i only have
>
> > PCMCIA=yes
> > PCIC=i82365
> > PCIC_OPTS=
> > CORE_OPTS=
> > CARDMGR_OPTS=
>
> > i guess this is probably because im using Redhat and that is their
> > default way of structuring the config.
>
> Is this a very old Red Hat?
>
> -- Dave

No this is redhat 9.0. at first i had problems even detecting my card.
so i've uninstalled the pcmcia support from my kernel and installed
the newest pcmcia_cs package. only after this did i actually get a
machine address detected by cardctl. now im trying to insmod the
8211.o file and i always get pin A of device not found etc.. i found
another post on google about adding something to the ADM driver code,
see